Antifungal properties of lecithin- and terbinafine-loaded electrospun poly(ε-caprolactone) nanofibres

• Main Authors: Harini, Sriram, Venkatesh, Mayandi, Radhakrishnan, Sridhar, Fazil, Mobashar Hussain Urf Turabe, Goh, Eunice Tze Leng, Rui, Sun, Dhand, Chetna, Ong, Seow Theng, Barathi, Veluchamy Amutha, Beuerman, Roger W., Ramakrishna, Seeram, Verma, Navin Kumar, Lakshminarayanan, Rajamani
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Electrospinning; Nanofibres
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81984; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41035
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Topical skin and nail fungal infections form the most numerous and widespread among superficial mycoses. Drug eluting electrospun nanofibres have been shown to have immense potential for the topical delivery of antimicrobials. In this article, we investigated the efficacy of lecithin-loaded electros...